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Pair of lice lost or parasites regained: the evolutionary history of anthropoid primate lice

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Title
Pair of lice lost or parasites regained: the evolutionary history of anthropoid primate lice
Published in
BMC Biology, March 2007
DOI 10.1186/1741-7007-5-7
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Authors

David L Reed, Jessica E Light, Julie M Allen, Jeremy J Kirchman

Abstract

The parasitic sucking lice of primates are known to have undergone at least 25 million years of coevolution with their hosts. For example, chimpanzee lice and human head/body lice last shared a common ancestor roughly six million years ago, a divergence that is contemporaneous with their hosts. In an assemblage where lice are often highly host specific, humans host two different genera of lice, one that is shared with chimpanzees and another that is shared with gorillas. In this study, we reconstruct the evolutionary history of primate lice and infer the historical events that explain the current distribution of these lice on their primate hosts.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 8 3%
United Kingdom 5 2%
Brazil 5 2%
Chile 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Czechia 2 <1%
France 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 282 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 63 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 56 18%
Student > Bachelor 50 16%
Student > Master 27 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 22 7%
Other 60 19%
Unknown 33 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 174 56%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 24 8%
Social Sciences 11 4%
Environmental Science 11 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 10 3%
Other 41 13%
Unknown 40 13%